Visualizing Distributed and Edge Applications Performance Using Amazon Quick Suite Sankey Diagram

This article demonstrates how to visualize distributed and edge application performance using Amazon Quick Suite Sankey diagrams combined with AWS services.

• Traditional monitoring tools fail to reveal bottlenecks across entire distributed architectures
• Solution combines EC2 monitoring, S3 storage, AWS Athena queries, and Quick Suite visualization
• Test environment used 27 EC2 instances across AWS Regions and Local Zones measuring network latency
• Python application stores network metrics in CSV format in S3 bucket
• Athena creates database and table schema to query raw performance data
• Quick Suite Sankey diagrams visualize traffic flow between nodes with latency as weight metric
• Solution supports real-time refresh intervals and error notifications
• Applicable to telecommunications, gaming, Edge AI, and autonomous vehicle networks

This approach transforms complex performance monitoring into intuitive visualizations enabling proactive optimization and informed expansion decisions for distributed infrastructure.